patches (was Re: linux security)

[David Talkington]

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Jeff Silverman said on Wed, 22 Jan 2003:

> On Wed, 22 Jan 2003, David Talkington wrote:
> 
> >  And RPM (at least in vendorspace) won't let
> > you install multiple versions of anything, which is sometimes desirable.
> 
> It's odd - I believe that what you wrote is true, but I just got an RPM 
> from RedHat for kernel 2.4.18-19.8.0, but the older kernels are still 
> there.  Certainly, it seems to be the case for, say, MySQL.  But does it 
> have to be thus or is there a way to gimick an RPM to allow multiple 
> versions that simply is unusual to do?

That's by design.  If rpm removed my old kernel before I confirmed that 
the new one booted, I'd raise holy hell, wouldn't you?  ;-)

As I recall, when lilo was the default, rpm didn't install the new one in
mbr.  Had to do it manually.  Once grub became the default, that changed;
the new one does come up, but the old one's still there as a backup.  
It's much safer now, in my experience.

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David Talkington
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